SEO URLs for contact, checkout etc

Hi All,

I'm working on my first Opencart project and I'm trying to make the urls with ?route= a bit nicer such as /index.php?route=checkout/cart becoming just /cart

I've added some rows to the url_alias table and if I go directly to /cart it works but I'm trying to work out how to generate the links to be consistent E.g. the links in the top nav

I've found answers on how to do this for older versions of Opencart but not for 2.x

I've looked in catalog/controller/common/seo_url.php as that's where people modified the older version to accomplish this but I don't understand why it's looking for $this->request->get['_route_'] when the url variable is just route without the underscores

Any help would be appreciated

Open your htaccess and you will find out the why of _route_

Thanks, got it working now